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SFTPGo sustainability #1218

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Unfortunately SFTPGo is not financially viable yet which means its sustainability model is failing.
SFTPGo users have increased a lot but only a few of you support the project with sponsorships/donations.

With few exceptions, companies/people generally start sponsoring for a few dollars a month ask a lot of questions/features and once they have their answers/features they stop sponsoring. Not to mention the people who don't sponsor at all and who contact me privately if I close as invalid their issues whose answer is in the documentation or big companies using SFTPGo without returning anything back.

SFTPGo offerings on Azure and AWS are by far the cheapest of similar products, and SFTPGo has more features than many commercial products there, yet subscriptions are low.

I can't keep investing all this time in SFTPGo under these conditions. If each of you donated a small amount there would be no sustainability problems but unfortunately this is not the case.

I'm sorry but I'm considering switching to an open core model or something similar where not all features are available in the free version.

I'm posting this in hopes that something will change, but honestly I'm skeptical now. I lost about 10 sponsors, for no reason, this month alone.

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